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“So by oscillating the voltage back and forth, you can bend and unbend the strip, which will generate waves to drive the movement,” Cohen says.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2022

Even if your parents rage against that restriction, they can’t force you to unbend.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021

But every part of the process – including the coat hanger we unbend to use as a roasting spit — is a product of the Industrial Revolution.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2018

Taking small steps Mr. Hübbe has begun to unbend certain traditions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

My joints were frozen with terror — I couldn’t unbend my fingers to drop it.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Instead of shuttling back and forth, the vitamin A complex stays put in the retina, where one wavelength of light bends the light-sensing molecule, while another unbends it.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2023

But as you pass from childhood to middle age, from middle age to old age, the coin slowly unbends.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

This is not a short-term strategy until he unbends and promises to change—he’s made it clear he can’t be trusted, so don’t trust him.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2017

Besuited and stiffly formal of speech, he gradually unbends as he talks about his giving.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010

"You and I are off for a jaunt in the country, Charles, and the sternest disciplinarian unbends during holiday time."

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy

The unbended sail Flaps idly in the passing wind; And dark below, each dull canal Is stagnant as its owner's mind!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

To full satiety of grief she mourns, Then silent to the joyous hall returns, To the proud suitors bears in pensive state The unbended bow, and arrows winged with fate.

From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope

I must he in the battle, but I'll go With empty quiver, and unbended bow; Not draw an arrow in this fatal strife, For fear its point should reach your noble life.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott

All at once, from being the plodding, hard-working engineer, with responsibility and thought in every feature, Telford unbended and relaxed, and became the merriest and drollest of the party.

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

Jennie was his companion now, and as he more and more unbended, and even joyously flung aside the habiliments of his dignity, her perception of him grew clearer.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I wouldn’t have expected to become so interested in screws being unscrewed, tabs unbent, machines reduced to component parts, cleaned and painted, with missing parts newly fabricated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Particles with Oh-My-God and Amaterasuenergy blast through intergalactic space relatively unbent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023

The tournament has the unbent feel of a week-and-a-half-long summer camp.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

She unbent slightly and explained that she had downloaded a tool that unblocked overseas Web sites.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019

Mr. Caton had gone begging to Mr. Dubonnet, and the union chief had unbent just enough to let him build me the nozzles, casements, fins, and nose cones I needed for my display.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

In his one shot at the Champions League, Postecoglou was unbending in his attacking mindset even when drawn against Real Madrid.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

Religion tends to be about absolute truths and unbending principles.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023

It set a template for the rest of her political career: unbending, strong, determined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

They have avoided internal divisions by falling in line behind their ideologically unbending leader.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

She was nearly seventy, but her zeal was unbending.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende